Wouldtake less time to run than?

I don't think it would, but I just added saving and loading into a game I'm writing, and a major hangup is saving the 100x200 maps. Is there a way to speed up this process, maybe some way to compress the data first?

Gamer_2k4

I don't think how you do the loops is your real question. It's how to save the maps effectively.

How do you declare the map? Structure? Matrix? You might want to consider outputting the entire map in one output command.

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That's a good idea. My map is a 100x200 array, but I can write a program to generate the cout statement. That might be the best way. Thanks.

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You don't use cout to save the map. That's for displaying the map. You need file I/O

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Right, that was a mistake on my part. "cout <<" and "saveFile <<" are similar statements, since the syntax is the same. I merely mixed up the two in my response.

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